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So Many M&A Deals Fail Because Companies Overlook This Simple Strategy

Harvard Business Review

For instance, despite the importance of accurately identifying and calculating company synergies, diligence work frequently results in an overly optimistic view of the revenue synergy opportunity. Often the weakest assumptions involve estimates of how much additional revenue the companies can generate when combined.

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Unglamorous Freelance Manufacturers Could Boost U.S. Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

But CMOs tend not to be favored by private investors, because these companies are asset heavy — they need land, buildings, equipment, vehicles, and large illiquid investment in capital equipment. Hence, by definition, they tend to have lower ROA, even if they have significant revenues and very high absolute profits.

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

Its current principal source of revenue is the export of healthcare services by means of sending physicians, nurses, and healthcare technicians to countries like Venezuela and Brazil—an item that it has yet to record in its published official statistics. We know two things about biotech in Cuba. So how does Cuba make money?